Quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

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Wind

World

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

Moments

Patterns

And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see its mesh of patterns, and it strikes us as beautiful. And that feeling is the most important thing in all the universe—its culmination, like the color of the flower at first bloom on a wet morning.

Beautiful

Flower

Morning

Anyway that’s a large part of what economics is – people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven’t just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful

Astrology

Numbers

Powerful

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

Beauty

Promise

Real

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

Easier

Littles

World

Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

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Water

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

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Wave

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

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Multiple

Persons

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

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Incompetence

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Quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next moment embraced as it arrived.

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

Fights over ideas are the most vicious of all. If it were merely food, or water, or shelter, we would work something out. But in the realm of ideas one can become idealistic .

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.

It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person

One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself.

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